If you are one of those that depends upon a scanner for your daily work, and you want to handle this task using the Linux operating system, you are in luck. In the past, Linux has had some serious issues with scanning tools. When USB scanners replaced the old parallel port scanners it seemed nothing [...]

Tags: Espon, flatbed scanners, linux scanning, scanning, usb scanners
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

When Gmail first came out I wasn’t a fan. But after a year of use I have found Google Mail to be a very valuable tool. Because I use Gmail mostly for work-related issues, I do not always like to check it within a browser. Instead I use various applications that enable me to have [...]

Tags: desktop email, gmail, gmail applets, prism
Categories: Email, Google, Linux, Online Services, software

You may remember my mention of the Ubuntu Software Center in my article “Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview“. Well, Karmic Koala is now officially Ubuntu 9.10 and is on the streets. I have installed the release and am as pleased as I expected I would be. One aspect of 9.10 that I was most interested in [...]

Tags: add/remove software, gdebi, installing software, Karmic Koala, Synaptic, ubuntu 9.10
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a [...]

Tags: DAAP, itunes, mp3 server, multimedia server, music server, songbird
Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of.  But, of course, the purpose of this article [...]

Tags: media center, multimedia, video playback
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Advanced, software

If you are familar with KDE you know Konqueror. Konqueror used to be one of the finest file managers on the PC desktop – period. But now KDE has migrated toward a simpler, more user-friendly file manager (Dolphin) and pushed Konqueror to serve as a web-browser only. That does not mean Konqueror can not be [...]

Tags: file manager, KDE, kio_slaves, Konqueror, split view browser
Categories: Browsing, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Search Engines, Tutorials Basic, software

So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

Tags: Email, email filtering, Postfix, spam, SPAM scoring
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced